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Egypt 3-month, 9-month bills rises, Ghana 91-day bill yield eases

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Yields on Egypt’s three- and nine-month Treasury bills rose at an auction on Sunday, central bank data showed. Yields on the 91-day bill rose to an average of 18.917 percent from 18.513 percent at the previous action. Yields on the 266-day bill rose to 19.103 percent from 18.814 percent. Whereas, the Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill fell to 16.6759 percent at an auction…

Nigeria Next for Allan Gray’s Ndiritu After Zambia Triumph

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: A year ago, Nick Ndiritu, a portfolio manager at Cape Town-based Allan Gray Ltd., took a bet on the world’s worst-performing debt. The Zambian bonds Ndiritu bought at the height of the southern African nation’s currency crisis have returned 29 percent this year as the economy rebounded, helping to boost returns at the Allan Gray Africa ex-South Africa Bond Fund to almost double its peer average. Now Ndiritu is seeing value in local-currency…